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Patterns of the electric organ discharge during courtship and spawning in the mormyrid fish, Pollimyrus isidori [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
Pollimyrus isidori's electric organ discharge (EOD) is of the pulse type. Patterns of EOD intervals were investigated prior to, during and following spawning behaviors as related with overt behaviors, and with the sound production by the nestbuilding ...
Bratton, Bradford O., Kramer, Bernd
core   +1 more source

Real Virtuality: A Code of Ethical Conduct. Recommendations for Good Scientific Practice and the Consumers of VR-Technology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The goal of this article is to present a first list of ethical concerns that may arise from research and personal use of virtual reality (VR) and related technology, and to offer concrete recommendations for minimizing those risks.
Madary, Michael, Metzinger, Thomas
core   +3 more sources

Dark nudges in gambling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
‘Nudge’ has come into common usage in behavioral science, the intersection of psychology and economics, for situations where a ‘choice architect’ aligns a system with consumers’ best long - term interests (Thaler & Sunstein, 2008).
Cassidy R   +8 more
core   +2 more sources

Digital nudges and dark patterns: The angels and the archfiends of digital communication

open access: yesDigital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2019
Abstract Nudging is simply guiding people behaviors by the use of user-interface and design elements in digital environments. Today, many decisions are made in online environments. Gaining insights about digital nudging can greatly help communicators, policy makers, and designers lead users to make the most desirable choice for them and ...
openaire   +1 more source

Nudging lifestyles for better health outcomes: crowdsourced data and persuasive technologies for behavioural change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
For at least three decades, a Tsunami of preventable poor health has continued to threaten the future prosperity of our nations. Despite its effective destructive power, our collective predictive and preventive capacity remains remarkably under ...
CODAGNONE CRISTIANO   +2 more
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In Vivo Cytoskeletal AMPA Receptor Transport Imaging in C. elegans

open access: yesCytoskeleton, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Long‐distance intracellular transport of ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs) is essential for proper excitatory synaptic function underlying learning and memory. Many neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative conditions have abnormal iGluR transport and trafficking, leading to an intense interest in the mechanisms and factors regulating these
Michaelis A. K., Hoerndli F. J.
wiley   +1 more source

Online Manipulation: Hidden Influences in a Digital World [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Privacy and surveillance scholars increasingly worry that data collectors can use the information they gather about our behaviors, preferences, interests, incomes, and so on to manipulate us.
Nissenbaum, Helen   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Awareness–Action and Policy Acceptability in Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Key Stakeholders in Germany's Cattle Dairy and Meat Chains

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a systematic literature review and targeted searches to define a synthesis framework mapping the awareness–action gap, progression along the awareness–action continuum and policy acceptability in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mitigation among key stakeholders in Germany's cattle dairy and meat chains.
Karen Arcia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tracking ocean heat uptake during the surface warming hiatus. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Ocean heat uptake is observed to penetrate deep into the Atlantic and Southern Oceans during the recent hiatus of global warming. Here we show that the deep heat penetration in these two basins is not unique to the hiatus but is characteristic of ...
Liu, Wei, Lu, Jian, Xie, Shang-Ping
core   +1 more source

Assimilation of 3D radar reflectivities with an ensemble Kalman filter on the convective scale [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
An ensemble data assimilation system for 3D radar reflectivity data is introduced for the convection-permitting numerical weather prediction model of the COnsortium for Small-scale MOdelling (COSMO) based on the Kilometre-scale ENsemble Data Assimilation
Bick, T.   +10 more
core   +1 more source

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